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James B. Conant

1893 - 1978

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James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army, where he worked on the development of poison gases, especially Lewisite. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James B. Conant has received more than 278,402 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). James B. Conant is the 468th most popular chemist (down from 456th in 2019), the 6,302nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,272nd in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James B. Conant ranks 468 out of 509Before him are Caleb Bradham, Hans Goldschmidt, Theodor Curtius, Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Jan Szczepanik. After him are Heinrich Rose, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Masatoshi Shima, John Mayow, Michael Behe, and Hieronymous Theodor Richter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, James B. Conant ranks 193Before him are Chang Taek-sang, Arthur Benjamin, Ramón Encinas, Norman Bel Geddes, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Jimmy Durante. After him are Enrique Peñaranda, Robert Harron, Nurul Amin, Cornelius Lanczos, Toti Dal Monte, and Joseph Alzin. Among people deceased in 1978, James B. Conant ranks 167Before him are Ethelda Bleibtrey, Ali Soilih, Giuseppe Impastato, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Willy Hansen, and Greta Johansson. After him are John Lyng, George Moscone, Germain Derycke, Will Geer, Victor Hasselblad, and Philip Ahn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James B. Conant ranks 6,302 out of 18,182Before him are William E. Thornton (1929), Gary Gygax (1938), John Podesta (1949), Christopher Judge (1964), Jorge Garcia (1973), and Lucius Shepard (1943). After him are Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930), Alan Ruck (1956), L. Q. Jones (1927), Michael Bowen (1957), Gil Scott-Heron (1949), and John Wooden (1910).

Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, James B. Conant ranks 82Before him are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Eric Betzig (1960), Donella Meadows (1941), Isabella Karle (1921), Maclyn McCarty (1911), and Caleb Bradham (1867). After him are Michael Behe (1952), Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856), Helen Murray Free (1923), George M. Whitesides (1939), James Crafts (1839), and Allen J. Bard (1933).